Cigar-cutter



NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES H. BOVEN, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

CIGAR-CUTTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 439,320, dated October 28, 1890.

Application filed December 21, 1889. Serial No. 334,478. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JAMES H. BOWEN, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city and county of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania, have inventeda new and useful Improvement in Cigar-Cutters, which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification and accompanying drawings.

My invention relates to a cigar-cutter; and it consists of a rotatable wheel with a blade attached thereto, ratcliet-andpawl mechanism for operating said wheel, and a bed or support for a cigar adjacent to said wheel, having an opening to receive the end or tip of a cigar, whereby said end or tip may be cut off rapidly, easily, and neatly.

The invention further consists of the construction and combination of parts more fully hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claims. 7

Figure 1 represents a perspective View of the inside and outside of a cigar-cutter embodying my invention. Figs. 2 and 3 represent top or plan views of detached portions thereof in different positions.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the three figures.

Referring to the drawings, A designates the casin g of a cigar-cutter,within which is mounted the shaft B, the latter carrying a wheel 0, to whose periphery is secured a blade D, the latter having preferably an oblique cuttingedge, producing a draw out. At the top of the casing is a bed E, in which is an opening F, it being noticed that said opening is just over the path of rotation of the blade D, so that the bottom thereof forms a shear with said blade. Beneath the bed E is a box G for receiving the tips or pieces of tobacco cut from the cigars. To the side of the wheel 0 there is secured a ratchet H, with which engages a dog or pawl J, which is freely mounted on an angular extension K of a crank-shaft K, the bearings whereof are on a frame L within the casin g A, said shaft carrying a pinion M, with which meshes a rack N, the latter being Vertically guided in the frame L and adjacent portion of the casing A and provided with a handle P, whereby sliding motions may be readily imparted to said rack. A portion K of the bearing of the shaft K is constructed of the form of a projecting angular arm,

part of which strikes the extension K of shaft K when the rack N reaches the two extremes of its operating movement to present the dog J for engagement with the rack H and to clear the same from said rack. The arm of the crank-shaft K, on which the dog or pawl is mounted, is provided with stops Q R, whereby the rotary motions of said pawl are limited. The pawl is first held in operative position in order to engage with the ratchet, and afterward thrown clear of the same and limited by the said stops, so as not to interfere with the rotation of the power-wheel.

The operation is as follows: Motion is imparted to the rack N, whereby the pinion M and shaft N are rotated. The pawl J engages with the ratchet H, as seen in Figs. 1 and 2, and imparts rotary motion to the Wheel G. Then the shaft K has made a half or partial turn, the pawl drops from the ratchet by means of the extension K of shaft K, striking the horizontal part of the bearing K and is clear of the path of the same, as seen in Fig. 3, the wheel 0, however, continuing its rotation, owing to the momentum primarily imparted to the same. A cigar is now placed in the open ing F, and its tip is in the path of the blade D, so that said tip is severed or cut off and it drops into the box G, from whence it may be subsequently removed. As rotation of the wheel 0 may continue, another cigar may be inserted in the opening F and cut, as in the previous case, or additional power may be imparted to the wheel by the proper operation of the rack N, the pawl J riding back over the teeth of the ratchet and taking fresh hold of one of the teeth, so that as saidpawl is advanced it engages with said tooth and rotates against the opposite sides of the horizontal the ratchet, and consequently the blade-carrying wheel G.

Having thus described my invention, What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. A cigar-cutter having a casing or frame with a rotatable wheel thereon operated by a pawl-and-ratchet mechanism, a blade carried by the periphery of and projecting laterally from said wheel, and a bed or support for a cigar being adjacent to said wheel, whereby the tip of a cigar may be placed in the path of the wheel, substantially as described.

2. A cigar-cutter consisting of a wheel, a ratchet in connection with the wheel, and a pawl mechanism for operating said ratchet to actuate the wheel, a blade carried by and lab erally projecting from the periphery of said wheel, and a bed with an opening above the wheel, substantially as described.

3. In a cigar-cutter, a casing or frame, a wheel mounted thereon having a ratchet in connection therewith and a peripheral blade projecting laterally therefrom, a looselymounted pawl adapted to engage said ratchet, a rack-and-pinion mechanism for operating said pawl, and a support above said blade for receiving the tip of a cigar, substantially as described.

4. In a cigar-cutter, a blade-carrying wheel provided with a ratchet, a dog or pawl connected with a shaft and adapted to engage said ratchet, and mechanism for operating said shaft, substantially as described.

5. In a cigar-cutter, a blade-carrying wheel having a ratchet in connection therewith, a loosely-mounted dog or pawl adapted to engage said ratchet, and means having a reversing movement to impart a double throw to said dog or pawl, substantially as described.

6. In a cigar-cutter, a blade-carrying wheel having a ratchet in connection therewith, a loosely-mounted dog or pawl connected to a shaft and adapted to engage said ratchet, a pinion in connection with the shaft of said dog or pawl, and a reeiprocatory rack adapted to engage and operate said pinion, substantially as described.

JAMES H. BOVEN.

Witnesses:

JOHN A. 'WIEDERSHEIM; A. P. JENNINGS. 

